A social ethic for fish and wildlife management

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Fifty years after Leopold penned those words, the human component of fish and wildlife science is “so new and intricate” that the path of social expediency is, indeed, “not discernible.” The authors suggest that a definable ethic is the “mode of guidance” for effectively meeting the social dimension of fish and wildlife resource decision-making of the future. Expanding the philosophy of Leopold's land ethic, the authors define universal principles of being fair, open and honest that underlie the apparent success or failure of current public/natural resource interactions. Drawing on their extensive public process experience, the authors contend that if fish and wildlife professionals, as a community, embrace the fair open and honest philosophy as the cornerstone of public process, then, Leopold's “mode of guidance” will have been defined for the coming century.

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